Thus, a single growth step may result in 4 or 8 daughter cells per mother cell.
The pit connection is formed where the daughter cells remain in contact.
This produces a single daughter cell with its copy number doubled.
Sure enough, the three daughter cells appeared, filling themselves out as they separated.
The difference of a daughter cell from the mother may be great, but it could also be much less, even subtle.
The cell can now divide to give two daughter cells.
Meiosis is now complete and ends up with four new daughter cells.
This is the physical division of "mother" and "daughter" cells.
Both daughter cells from the division do not necessarily survive.
The two daughter cells do not fully separate and remain attached to one another.